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Wednesday, June 11, 2014

No-Roll Sugar Cookies

It's Flag Day this Saturday. What better way to celebrate than with some patriotic cookies?

I love sugar cookies, but I'm not a fan of rolling them and cutting them out. While these don't have exactly the same consistency as rolled cookies, they are full of flavor and just the right ratio of crunchy exterior to moist interior.

Our PEO group traditionally provides cookies for a grieving PEO sister's family so they can share a sweet treat and memories with their relatives and friends following services. Recently, I provided cookies for a PEO whose husband had served in the Vietnam War. I was glad I found both red and blue sugar in my Lazy Susan stash to give the cookies a patriotic feel.

I left them unfrosted for the reception, but adding a simple frosting made of butter, powdered sugar, almond extract and a little milk with patriotic sprinkles further satisfies anyone's sweet tooth.

The
idea of an annual day specifically celebrating the Flag is believed to have
first originated in 1885. Schoolteacher B.J. Cigrand arranged for the pupils in the
Fredonia (Wisconsin) Public School, District 6, to observe June 14, the 108th
anniversary of the official adoption of The Stars and Stripes, as 'Flag Birthday.'

In 1914, Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the
Interior, delivered an address in which he repeated words that he said the flag
had spoken to him that morning: "I am what you make me; nothing more. I swing before
your eyes as a bright gleam of color, a symbol of yourself."

It was not
until August 3, 1949, that President Harry S. Truman signed an Act of Congress designating June
14 as National Flag Day.

Hooray for the red, white and blue!

No-Roll Sugar CookiesAdapted from the Pratt United Methodist Church cookbook